Ep 217 Help Your Child Get Organized: Executive Function Tools for the School Year

Does your child forget assignments, struggle to use a planner, procrastinate on homework, or need constant reminders to get out the door in the morning? Those everyday challenges are opportunities to build executive function skills—and the goal isn’t to create a perfect routine overnight. In this episode of The Stress Nanny Podcast, Lindsay Miller shares how parents can help kids find their school rhythm: a realistic approach to organization, time management, productivity, homework, rest, and

Summer is full of growth for kids—but how often do we actually stop and help them notice it? In this episode of The Stress Nanny Podcast, Lindsay Miller shares one of her favorite coaching tools: the Summer Review Conversation. It’s a simple reflection exercise that helps kids recognize how they’ve grown, identify the skills they used to navigate challenges, and carry that confidence with them into whatever comes next. Kids are constantly developing emotional, social, and mental skills, but u...

Back-to-school season can bring plenty of excitement—but for many kids, it also brings worry, uncertainty, and those familiar nervous butterflies. In this episode of The Stress Nanny Podcast, Lindsay Miller shares three practical tools parents can use to help kids navigate back-to-school anxiety with more calm and confidence. You’ll learn why a child’s nervousness about a new teacher, classroom, schedule, friendships, or school is often a completely normal nervous-system response to uncertaint

What if resilience wasn't something you scrambled for in a crisis, but something already woven into the fabric of your family's everyday life? That's the big idea behind this conversation with Dr. Kate Lund, licensed clinical psychologist, resilience expert, and author of Bounce: Help Your Child Build Resilience and Thrive in School, Sports and Life. Dr. Kate brings over two decades of clinical experience, specialized training from three Harvard Medical School affiliated hospitals, and a pers...

This week Lindsay is back with a solo episode, and it's a good one. She's making the case for self-awareness as the single most foundational skill we can give our kids — and unpacking why so many families accidentally skip it entirely. Spoiler: it's not because they don't care. It's because we've been taught to associate self-awareness with selfishness. And that association, Lindsay argues, is completely backwards. What We Cover Why self-awareness is the foundation of emotional intelligence,...

Your teenager came to you upset. You said "go sort yourself out." Here's what they actually needed. In this episode, Lindsay sits down with Laura Ollinger — teen and parent wellbeing coach, speaker and mom of FOUR teenagers (yes, all at once) — for a conversation that is equal parts real talk and practical gold. Laura shares how a personal tragedy and her daughter's anxiety brought her back to school in her 40s, and why she built a coaching practice that works with both kids AND parents — bec...